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EJ · 13-09-2011, 10:21 PM

A little OT... is pedantic a word?

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Originally Posted by Ozric Jonathan

Hi Paulus, I suspect what you have been using is a tube and not a bulb! I know it seems pedantic but this might have caused some confusion. I think we have all agreed that a tube rated at 10% would be an improvement. If you are getting a tube at 10%, then as you say you would still be in need of the bulb for heat and a dimming thermostat is a good way to do it.

If Ed is still following here, agreed you did say right at the start that a 10 tube would be suitable.

paulus · 13-09-2011, 10:24 PM

Sorry for any confusion with terminology I may have used wrongly, so many names for things that do similar things, the uv bulb I have been using is a repti glo 5.0 compact 26 w along side this I have been using a heat bulb with temperature controlled by a dimming habistat. I understand this uvb bulb may well be to low and have built a new tort table and plan to use a UVB tube 10 or 12 ( the long ones that look a bit like a floresent strip light) with a starter unit I already have. I will be using a reflector as well and position it fairly close to the soil. Been advised about 6 inches

hope this clears things up
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Kirkie · 13-09-2011, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by EJ

ahhh... I didn't read it that close... still a tube.

You could stick this in the dictionary as an example of pedantic.

Ok, I admit it's a tube in operation.

Kirkie · 13-09-2011, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by paulus

Sorry for any confusion with terminology I may have used wrongly, so many names for things that do similar things, the uv bulb I have been using is a repti glo 5.0 compact 26 w along side this I have been using a heat bulb with temperature controlled by a dimming habistat. I understand this uvb bulb may well be to low and have built a new tort table and plan to use a UVB tube 10 or 12 ( the long ones that look a bit like a floresent strip light) with a starter unit I already have. I will be using a reflector as well and position it fairly close to the soil. Been advised about 6 inches

hope this clears things up
o

Sounds good. I use at 10.0 with reflector at 7 inches above the substrate.

Ozric Jonathan · 13-09-2011, 11:15 PM

Well done Kirkie. I'd forgotten about those things - but they are surely not described as tubes. Are they?

**Alan1** · 13-09-2011, 11:22 PM

pedantic is a word even I know that

yay

Kirkie · 13-09-2011, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Ozric Jonathan

Well done Kirkie. I'd forgotten about those things - but they are surely not described as tubes. Are they?

I could be wrong but I think they're gas filled like tubes rather than a having a filament producing the UV.

EJ · 13-09-2011, 11:40 PM

You are so smarter than me.

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Originally Posted by caledonia

pedantic is a word even I know that

yay

EJ · 13-09-2011, 11:42 PM

no... they took the tube and coiled it... no different.

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Originally Posted by Kirkie

You could stick this in the dictionary as an example of pedantic.

Ok, I admit it's a tube in operation.

Ozric Jonathan · 14-09-2011, 09:42 AM

I give in. It's a tube and our OP was using the correct term all along. Apologies to all and sundry!

13-09-2011, 11:15 PM	#35
Ozric Jonathan Senior Member Adult Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: West of Scotland Posts: 4,226	Well done Kirkie. I'd forgotten about those things - but they are surely not described as tubes. Are they? __________________ Testudo Hermanni Hermanni (Corse) tortoises

14-09-2011, 09:42 AM	#40
Ozric Jonathan Senior Member Adult Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: West of Scotland Posts: 4,226	I give in. It's a tube and our OP was using the correct term all along. Apologies to all and sundry! __________________ Testudo Hermanni Hermanni (Corse) tortoises

13-09-2011, 10:24 PM	#32
paulus Member Hatched Join Date: May 2011 Location: Colchester Posts: 404	Sorry for any confusion with terminology I may have used wrongly, so many names for things that do similar things, the uv bulb I have been using is a repti glo 5.0 compact 26 w along side this I have been using a heat bulb with temperature controlled by a dimming habistat. I understand this uvb bulb may well be to low and have built a new tort table and plan to use a UVB tube 10 or 12 ( the long ones that look a bit like a floresent strip light) with a starter unit I already have. I will be using a reflector as well and position it fairly close to the soil. Been advised about 6 inches hope this clears things up o

13-09-2011, 11:22 PM	#36
Alan1 Super Moderator Adult Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Sunny Scotland Posts: 21,512	pedantic is a word even I know that yay

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